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Social studies 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Is a sharecropper paid in cash or part of the crop? | Part of the crop |
| What happened during the Great migration? | Many African Americans moved to the North. |
| What Indian tribe did General Custer encounter at the Little Bighorn River? | Sioux |
| What business was Pike's Peak, Colorado famous for after 1858? | Mining |
| What did the thirteenth amendemnet to the constitution do? | It freed all slaves in the United States and its territories |
| Is the Bessemer process important for the production of oil? | No |
| Did the senate acquit president Andrew Johnson of crime? | Yes |
| How did the Freedman's Bureau help former slaves? | It built schools to help them learn to read. |
| Why was the steel plow imortant to the Great Plains? | The blade made the tough sod easier to turn over |
| What did George Westinghouse invent to help railroads? | air brakes |
| Was Abraham Lincoln assassinated before or after Robert E. Lee surrendered at the end of the civil war? | after |
| did John Rockfeller's Standard Oil Company once control most of the ol refining in the United States? | yes |
| What was the purpose of the Black Codes? | It limited the rights of former slaves |
| What city was at the end of acattle trail and grew most? | Cheyenne, Wyoming |
| How far did the transcontinental railroad stretch? | From the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |